Start JIRA as root

[yunfeng guo]

I want to know whether and how i can start JIRA as root, coz i want ot run it at port 80. I know i can do it with Apache or Nginx, but i just want to know how i can run it at 80.

JIRA version is 5.1.3

[DarkSideMilk]

I realize this is an old post, but look into authbind

it's an old tool but it still works, allows you to give access to restricted ports such as 80 and 443 to non root users

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ugh, that's always a bad idea - best practice is to run as little as possible as root, especially avoiding things that are as flexible as Jira.

You've already got the best answer - use a proxy, but you can also re-route traffic in a firewall, remove the security that is blocking you ( look up "setcap") or authbind (I seem to remember that only works for IPV4 though)

[yunfeng guo]

Currently, we use iptables to redirect from 80 to 8080, but we met a problem: something does not work fine with the port redirection. Here is the detail: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/249203/jira-504-error-when-add-user-into-project

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That error doesn't seem to be related to port redirections, just the server timing out.